Political Reporters No Longer Get To Decide What's News. The Days When A Minister Gave Briefings To A Dozen Lobby Correspondents, And Thereby Dictated The Next Day's Headlines, Are Over. Now, A Thousand Bloggers Decide For Themselves What Is Interesting. If Enough Of Them Are Tickled Then, Bingo, You're News.

-Daniel Hannan

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Political Reporters No Longer Get To Decide

Daniel Hannan

Political Reporters No Longer Get To Decide What's News. The Days When A Minister Gave Briefings To A Dozen Lobby Correspondents, And Thereby Dictated The Next Day's Headlines, Are Over. Now, A Thousand Bloggers Decide For Themselves What Is Interesting. If Enough Of Them Are Tickled Then, Bingo, You're News.

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